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Arrosee 2009

St Emilion, Grand Cru Classé

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Tasting Notes

It has been many years since l’Arrosee made a wine this brilliant. Always one of the more delicate, Burgundian-styled St.-Emilions, the 2009 exhibits seductive, beautiful raspberry and black cherry fruit intermixed with hints of minerality as well as spicy oak. Lavishly concentrated, full and fresh, ethereal in both its texture and weight, and light on its feet, it can be drunk early in life yet has the stuffing and balance to last 20-25+ years.

Score: 91

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2012-2037 01 March 2012

This outstanding l’Arrosee is consistent with the Burgundian style that this terroir routinely produces. Never massive, at its best it offers intense flavors of kirsch, raspberry, crushed rock, and spice box. The full-bodied flavors are ethereal in their delicacy. Full, but stylish, precise, intense, and never heavy, this beauty can be drunk early or cellared for two decades or more. (Tasted three times.)

Score: 92 - 94

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 01 April 2010

Intense aromas of sliced meat, with tobacco and flowers as well as ripe fruit. Full body, with soft and silky tannins and a juicy finish. A little short hollow in mid-palate. But outstanding all the same. Try in 2018.

Score: 92

James Suckling, - Maturity: 2018+ 15 February 2012

Silky and very pretty with cedar and chocolate aromas and flavors. Medium- to full-bodied, with fine tannins and a clean finish

Score: 89 - 92

James Suckling, Wine Spectator 01 April 2010

Tasted at the Association de Crus Classé tasting at Grand Pontet. A blend of 44% Merlot and 28% each of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon, this has a relatively taciturn nose that takes some coaxing: blackberry, plum, a touch of molasses and orange zest. The palate is well balanced with espresso-tinged black fruits, nicely defined, focused, quite toasty towards the finish but it has great harmony. It just misses a little complexity and weight. Tasted March 2010.

Score: 89 - 91

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 21 April 2010

Elegant nose. Not as jammy as some. A purer style of St Emilion with good depth of strawberry fruit and spicy notes, all wrapped up in a creamy texture.

Score: 89 - 92

Albany Vintners, - 01 April 2009